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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1944
Page
6
Chicago and Omaha reports indicate steady cattle, sheep, and hog receipts with active hog trade remaining fully steady. Prices for hogs, cattle, and sheep varied by weight but held to steady to higher ranges, with Western lambs and yearlings showing strength and packer demand remaining solid across midwestern markets.
The entry lists Wisconsin cheese prices and Mississippi River stock movements with city markers such as Davenport La Crosse Prairie du Chien and Keokuk. It notes small changes in rail shares in New York and a mild rally lifting markets from narrowing trends during the final hour.
The Cedar Rapids hog market held steady Tuesday with top prices at 14.45 for prime butchers and 13.70 for packers. The cattle market shows various price ranges for steers, yearlings, and cows, while the stock list in New York features mixed gains in steel, motors, rubbers, and rails, with many major names quoted.
Market listings show corn No 2 yellow at 1.04, soybeans No 2 yellow 1.86, oats new white No 2 6c, No 3 65c, wheat No 2 1.40, rye No 2 1.05. May and straw prices include baled straw 10.00 to 12.00 per unit and baled hay 14.00 to 16.00. Poultry prices list heavy springs over 3 lbs 23c, light springs 20c, heavy hens 20c, leghorn hens 17c, pullets 23c. Fruit and vegetables include Michigan celery 1.40 per dot, Colorado Pasco celery 4.25 per crate, lemons 7.84, Valencia oranges 6.41, lettuce 5.53, yellow onions 72.15, sweet potatoes Jersey 325, Jonathan apples 3.95, McIntosh 3.65, Russet potatoes 6.411, grapefruit 5.37. Hides and skins include No 1 cured hides 12, No 2 11½, No 1 calf hides 13 2c, No 2 calf 12½c, No 1 horse 6.50, No 2 horse 6.00, No 1 kip 12¾c, No 2 kip 11¾c. Also mentions manes and full tails included and boney and glue half price.
Wheat corn and barley futures advanced with early gains in oats and rye fading by close. Wheat up about 4 percent to September 1.59. corn to to . oats 4 lower. rye down. barley up to 1.07. Cash provisions note No wheat No corn, oats mixed. Soybeans at 10.1 nominal. seed prices listed for Timothy red clover and alsike.
Chicago and New York listings show fluctuating receipts and prices for butter eggs cheese and poultry. Prices range with butter around 41c to 92 score, eggs mixed wholesale quotes, cheese and poultry steady with turkeys hens and broilers noted. Volume details include tubs cases shares and U S shipments amid holiday effects.
The House voted to allow Waves women marines and Spars to serve outside the United States, with volunteers only in Hawaii Alaska or the American area. The bill does not alter existing law barring foreign service assignments for women.
City briefs include a rummage sale at 122 First Avenue NE on Thursday and several postponed or rescheduled events. Other items note a Rainbow for Girly installation postponed to Sept 30, a fried chicken supper at First United Presbyterian, and a Defense Transportation office visit at the Chamber of Commerce.
Detroit event wraps with reports to be delivered at the association meeting at Montrose hotel Thursday at noon. Principal speaker Verne White national committeeman Ray Short Cedar Rapids association president C V Shepherd past state president and Oscar A Anderson will also speak.
William Dye, 61, changed his plea in Judge M C Hamiel's court on Tuesday. He was sentenced to 60 days in Linn county jail with mittimus withheld on good behavior after evidence he carried the gun for repair and it being his first offense.
Arthur Stark, 20, of a farm one mile north of Martelle, pled guilty to larceny in Judge M C Hamiel's court. He received a $1 fine and a suspended six months Linn County jail term. Appeal bond set at $1,000. Stark was accused of stealing anti freez e solution tires and wrenches from a Lisbon gas station June 23.
Clifford E. Campbell 32 of 815 Division Street SE pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon in Judge M. C. Hamiel's court. He was fined $500 or five months in Linn County Jail. Other defendants faced similar charges with jail terms and mutual suspensions noted. A Century Steel suit seeks $1,035.52 from Loftus company partners.
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